Foreign Legionnaire Lyon Gaultier (Jean-Claude Van Damme) in Djibouti receives news of his dying brother. His heartless commander punishes him and he battles his way out of the base. He's a deserter hunted by the French government. He's a stowaway on a ship to America. He is surprised to find himself in NY. Joshua introduces him to underground fighting to pay for the trip to his brother's family in LA. By the time he reaches LA, his brother is already dead. His sister-in-law and her daughter are left with large medical bills. Cynthia runs the fights and he returns to the fights.
The story is pretty clunky. The writing is at a high school level. The dialog is pretty bad. The acting is pretty bad, too. Van Damme may actually be one of the better actors in this thing. Ashley Johnson gets her debut movie role and she's probably the best actor in the whole movie. This needs to kill it in the fights but they don't stand out. There is a fun one with a Scot in a kilt but it's not really enough. The fights are mostly edited poorly and lacks excitement or fun. The final fight could be good but it's put together weakly.
The story is pretty clunky. The writing is at a high school level. The dialog is pretty bad. The acting is pretty bad, too. Van Damme may actually be one of the better actors in this thing. Ashley Johnson gets her debut movie role and she's probably the best actor in the whole movie. This needs to kill it in the fights but they don't stand out. There is a fun one with a Scot in a kilt but it's not really enough. The fights are mostly edited poorly and lacks excitement or fun. The final fight could be good but it's put together weakly.